Leonard Baskin Professions : Illustrator Born : August 15, 1922 Died : June 3, 2000 Browse All Authors Top 16 quotes by Leonard Baskin Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death. Leonard Baskin fighting men art There is, however, a change going on in the world. There's far more interest in drawing now than there has been in a long, long time. Schools are beginning to teach drawing again in a serious and meaningful way. Leonard Baskin drawing meaningful school I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money. Leonard Baskin making-money anxiety survival People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation. Leonard Baskin fringe who-cares people I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless. Leonard Baskin artist nihilism thinking But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest. Leonard Baskin doctors honest thinking I always felt I needed to teach to survive. Leonard Baskin teach felt needed I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should. Leonard Baskin communication hard-work thinking I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading. Leonard Baskin leadership people thinking Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art. Leonard Baskin design would-be art Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable. Leonard Baskin modernism pops art The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it. Leonard Baskin education believe art Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist. Leonard Baskin self art thinking It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way. Leonard Baskin holocaust fifty years I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive. Leonard Baskin roots attitude thinking Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in. Leonard Baskin dedicated architecture should Similar Authors Brian Froud illustrator Brian Selznick illustrator Arnold Friberg illustrator Arthur Rackham illustrator Alexander Anderson illustrator Bill Peet illustrator All Authors
